Human rights, civil rights

Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular.

Even casual acquaintances of the Bible know that the Truth shall set you free, but in the pursuit of that Truth in higher education--particularly in Christian or Jewish seminaries--there are often many casualties suffered along the way.

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It is very important that you know the Bill of Rights to be protected against civil and/or criminal neglect.

For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evolving Muslim community and served as a moral and spiritual compass.

Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change?

This book records real-life experiences of transgender violence and victimisation, analysing the legal lacunae in granting protection to the historically vulnerable community and their perspective of the law and safety.

From 1949 to 1989, Germany was divided into West and East Germany.

Migrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries.

This book develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology, taking that burgeoning field in a new direction.

While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "e;culture,"e; has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion.

Spanning various regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, the authors of this volume come together to explore the complex relationship between religion and democracy in contemporary Africa.

As the Bride of Christ, the body of Christian believers has been called to serve Him.

For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-making.

Have you ever felt implicit pressure to 'go along' with something you believe not to be true?

Over the past two decades, human rights as legal doctrine and practice has shifted its engagement with criminal law from a near exclusive condemnation of it as a source of harm toward increasingly invoking it as a necessary remedy for abuses.

Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called "e;Ground Zero Mosque,"e; this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to Muslims.

In A Faith Not Worth Fighting For, editors Justin Bronson Barringer and Tripp York have assembled a number of essays by pastors, activists, and scholars in order to address the common questions and objections leveled against the Christian practice of nonviolence.

"e;Do many young boys meet hermits in the forest, and trade mushrooms for wisdom?

This book offers a philosophical and macro-historical analysis of secularism, supported by an investigation of various contemporary cases.

"e;[A] testament to his journey toward South Carolina's-not only desegregation of schools-but full integration and voice for African American students.

The 60th volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society edited by Austin Sarat, is an essential text for legal scholars with a unique focus on the disciplines of sociology, politics and the humanities.

Can religious individuals and communities learn from each other in ways that will lead them to collaborate in addressing the great ethical challenges of our time, including climate change and endless warfare?

In a fallen world, politics will be a brutal, at times violent, sport.

In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr.

Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

This most thorough and contemporary examination of the religious features of the UK state and its monarchy argues that the long reign of Elizabeth has led to a widespread lack of awareness of the centuries old religious features of the state that are revealed at the accession and coronation of a new monarch.

In the wake of same-sex marriage legalization, most religious conservatives realize that they now share a minority viewpoint on many social issues.

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland.

Religious liberty is often called "e;the first freedom.

The twenty-first century has seen violence thunder back onto the stage of history.

It is one thing to craft superb human rights tenets in a constitution and another to enforce such policies in practice.

Big Brother gets up close and personal.

Sick of the total BS of rampant PC?

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.

Through its strength in numbers and remarkable presence in politics, Pentecostalism has become a force to reckon with in twenty-first-century Zambian society.

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

This book analyses the principle of equality from three perspectives: public international law, private international law and EU law.

This book critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy.

Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation.

The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylors award-winning The Executed God is both a searing indictment of the structures of Lockdown America and a visionary statement of hope.

This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity.

More man a oecaoe aner me Taliban were ousted from power.

Is there life after death?

Everyone is paying attention to Pope Francis, and that includes the most unlikely of admirers: a female Baptist pastor.

This book critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy.

Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact.

Immigration has long been associated with the urban landscape, from accounts of inner-city racial tension and discrimination during the 1960s and 1970s and studies of minority communities of the 1980s and 1990s, to the increased focus on cities amongst contemporary scholars of migration and diaspora.

The book addresses authoritarian legacies of politically motivated justice and its unwritten practices that have re-emerged in the recent trials related to both political and ordinary criminal charges against prominent opposition leaders in many former Soviet republics.